My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.