I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

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 can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.