I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

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

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

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

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.