The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

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.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.