Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.
I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.
The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
Acting is a really insular thing.
There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
I'd love to play some kind of fop.
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
