I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

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

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

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.