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

With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I don't even own a car.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

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