I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.