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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
There are such strong women in my life that there's no chance of me getting too big for my boots.
Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?
There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
I grew up on stages. Not standing outside the 'Royal Court Theatre' wistfully, but with enthusiastic people from the community.
'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.
One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
As far as men of the past, I guess I'm comfortable looking at those roles and thinking that I want to be like them for the period of filming. I genuinely hold the belief that the characters are more interesting than who I am, when I approach them. I feel comfortable under that veil, and I think it shows.
I'm always struck, when I play characters from previous centuries, how young they were when they did what they did. That's what I need to get used to - when I portrayed a Russian cavalry solider in 'War & Peace,' he was in his teens. When I do a period piece, that's the hardest thing for me to get my head around.
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.