For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

It will be awesome audiobooks to go like films, but more longer!

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.

I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.