No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

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

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.