We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

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.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

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.

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

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.