I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire. Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

I think I've got a funny face.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.