NICHOLAS HOULT

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

I've realized why I don't tell the truth in interviews. It's because they're printed months later, and you change so quickly - you have new thoughts, new everything - so people are reading an old version of you.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I don't mind my eyebrows. They add... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.

The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.

I manage to live pretty normally.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'

The paparazzi don't care about me.

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

I remember doing my SATs on a film set; you had to complete the tests in a certain time and, obviously, you couldn't be interrupted. I think I did pretty well; it wasn't too difficult.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.