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.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

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

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.

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.

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