Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.