Occupation: Actor Birth: February 11, 1971
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..
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth sli….
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..
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical ap….
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part..
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy..
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet..
It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only..
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….
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history..
You just have to take control of your own performance..
You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.….
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie..
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV o….
I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I….
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience..
People need revelation, and then they need resolution..
My heroes were all in the theatre..
You know, I think I am faintly spiritual..
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having ….
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class struct….