Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

'Cause I do so much homework I'm good to go on the first take; I don't want to rehearse. I like the element of what's unpredictable of that first take and nobody knows what's going to happen, and I'm a big fan of that.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.