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.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

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.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.