“I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.”

I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.

We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.

I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.

Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!

We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

All the backstories are there but not talked about.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That’s why it’s not so easy to adapt him.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.