I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I love playing sport.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.