I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.