I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

I hate the word 'hippy.'