I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.