There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.