Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

I like playing dark, broody types.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.