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

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.