England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.