CHARLIE HUNNAM

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.