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.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

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.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

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'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.