I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.