I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

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.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.