What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up to me at a party and says, 'Oh, I've been dying to meet you. I've had such a crush on you.'

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.