Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.