'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the diffe….

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is..

In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about i….

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just ….

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary..

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind..

The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano lik….

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and….

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say what….

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy..

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it..

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life..

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references..

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference ….

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confi….

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath..

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change..

No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive..

I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." T….

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared..

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style..