I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

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

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for 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.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.