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.

I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.

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

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.