It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.