If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.