If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].