It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

Believe in yourself. You believe because you have faith. And because you have faith, you have courage to do.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.