I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.