When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I don't want to miss things.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.