I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

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

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.