Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.