I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I find it all a bit baffling, the whole celeb thing and I don't really get it.