If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.