You just have to take control of your own performance.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I love playing sport.