Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.