Joe Gilgun

“I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.”

“I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.”

“I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.”

“I love New York: it reminds me a bit of London.”

“I don't want to be a sexy vampire.”

“I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.”

“'This Is England 2015.' That would be ace. We could have prosthetics to make us look really old.”

“I don't do social media.”

“My family were really poor.”

“It's a very working-class thing, to get where you want and then not feel worthy.”

“Tinder - man, what's that all about? Tinder, where you're just, like, shopping for a human being. Reading the stats like 'Mortal Kombat.' You're like, 'Oh, he's got six arms, and he's only got the two, so I'll probably go with the six arms.' I don't want to do that with human beings.”

“I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.”

“'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?”

“I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.”

“On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.”

“I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.”

“Nobody smolders in real life.”

“I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.”

“I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'”

“It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'”