There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.
What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet.
I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.
I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.
I love travelling. I love cultures.
What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.
The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.
People call my family a dynasty, but I'm not sure what a dynasty actually is. And I don't feel part of one. It belies the truth of my real upbringing, which wasn't grand at all, and it flies in the face of the fact that, at root, I'm just a jobbing actor.
I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.
I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.
I am a twin, but my brother and I aren't identical, so it's not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings - my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.
I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.
Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.
I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'
I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven't tended to work so well.
Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.
I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.
