Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

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 actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Dancing is like riding a bike.