It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.