You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
You have to go where the good writing is.
You just have to take control of your own performance.
I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
I'm always forming bands.
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
My parents were incredibly inclusive.
My heroes were all in the theatre.
