We'll be back. I promise you that.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.