Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

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

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

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

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

You have to go where the good writing is.