Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.