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

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I really wanted to get out of England.