One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

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

Good dialogue is very important.

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

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.

Rudeness can make me angry.