When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time - that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.