Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.