When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

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.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.

I tell my wife all my secrets.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.