You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this..

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty..

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feelin….

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet..

Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd….

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terribl….

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance..

If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the gr….

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lap….

You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it..

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you d….

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many….

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else..

Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head.….

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that..

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful..

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without….

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people..

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does..

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness..

I'm on the verge of taking a stand..