Actor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

I've never been one who agonizes over my work.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.