If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.