I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine or the antiheroine.