For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.