Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!

True champions are team players.

My personal favorite [ moment] was when someone asked for one selfie too many and [Andy Cohen] snapped and tried to kill her by hugging her.

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently.

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.