It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

I don't want to miss things.

I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?