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.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.