As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

The only thing I can think of is my favorite album at the moment by this guy called Father John Misty, and the album is called I Love You, Honeybear. It's just brilliant. It's the album I'm currently obsessed with. It is original, and the lyrics are fantastic and [it's] brilliant. So that's blowing me away.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.