I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete..

The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you'….

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're st….

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel..

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner..

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences..

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you..

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being une….

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do i….

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I l….

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls..

Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display..

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way..