I'm a fairly private person.
I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.
I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.
I'd like to have a go at directing.
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
