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.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

Never apologize for being nerdy.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

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