Biography

They [my parents] might shut their eyes at some parts. I'm in a Michael Winterbottom film called On The Road and there's a lot of sex in that. They saw a private screening of it and I heard my mum just went to the toilet. I don't know if it's because I'm an extrovert, but I don't bat an eyelid doing those scenes now. But I feel for my mum and dad. Sometimes I think I must bewilder them.

I never felt inferior. I assumed equality and soon realised that equality doesn't exist. But that doesn't faze me. I'm not going to be fazed by a bunch of Etonians. I won't let a bunch of posh boys stop me.

I feel like I owe her [grandmother Betty Feeney] it all. My manners, my belief, tenacity, compassion - it all came from her. She's what I measure any moral decision on. She's very present in me. And it's going well. Touch wood.

[on the dumbing down of the working class] In my gran's day, working class didn't mean uncultured. Now we have ITV2 and YouTube.

[on what lies behind the macho facade of many Scottish men] Growing up I was confused by what I now understand was fear and a lack of confidence in men. When you're young, that just reads as aggression.