I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

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

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.

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

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.