I've been very lucky.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I like to cook things very slowly.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.