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….

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, k….

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only..

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history..

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me..

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….

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….

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….

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..

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy..

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.….

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story..

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 don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet..

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.'.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual..

You just have to take control of your own performance..

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience..

My heroes were all in the theatre..

People need revelation, and then they need resolution..