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

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

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.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.