The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it's the script first and whether it's a character that you think you can do.

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense.