I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.