I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

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.

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.