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

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

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.

You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.

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

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

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.