When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.