I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

I think I got into acting because I kind of had not much else to do! I guess I was kind of looking for something challenging. I heard about the London Theater scene and it was very different from the upbringing that I had and it felt like a challenge. And the whole sort of London Theater schools, I was told that 6,000 apply and there are like 30 accepted to each one. I was like, "Yeah. Let's see if we can do that!"