I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.