My Parents Were Incredibly Inclusive.

Dramatically It's Always More Interesting To Conceal Rather Than Reveal Things.

Quiet People, People Who Arent Given To Emotional Outbursts, People Who Are Economic With Words - Theyre Also Fun To Play, But You Find Yourself Needing A Laser Precision In Those Roles. Otherwise You Just Sort Of Stand Around, Looking Slightly Brain-dead. You Worry About Being Uninteresting.

It Was Pretty Daunting. Normally, I Never Go To A Gym, But Before We Started Shooting, I Thought I'd Better. I Reckoned I Was In Really Good Shape, And Then I Looked Around And I Was Half The Size Of Everyone Else. A Lot Of These American Actors Have This - In My View - Misplaced View That They Have To Look Like Action Man. The Trouble Is, They All Run The Risk Of Being Interchangeable.

You Know, This Idea Of Going Around The World Imposing Democracy By Growing A Middle-class, A Trading Merchant Class That Is Independent Of Your Faith, Is A Good Notion, But We're All Partially Different - It's No Good Imposing Systems On People That It Doesn't Suit.

You Never Know When You're Taking A Job, Ever... But You Try To Take Good Scripts. That's All You Can Do As An Actor - Take The Best Thing Available. Even Then, It's Not [really] In Your Control. Certainly Not In Film And Tv, Because There Are So Many Other Elements. You Just Have To Take Control Of Your Own Performance.