When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I’ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director’s door you’ve still got to do your homework: you’ve still got to work hard.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'