I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.