One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.