I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

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

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

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.