I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years.

Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.