One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.