Hattie Morahan

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.