Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
For me, it's about being at home and living a life. Taking the dog for a walk, doing the shopping, emptying the dishwasher, going for a run.
I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.
42 is a really boring age, isn't it?
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.
If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.
I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?'
It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.
That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.
Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.
'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.
Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think you need to live there when you're in your 20s - when you can be poor and energetic and just don't care.
I had a really good time in my 20s and 30s.
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
