I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.

Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.

You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.