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 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 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.

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

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

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

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