“Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.”

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.

Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.

I want to be better at staying connected.

Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.

I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‘Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.’

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Their every instinct – and I have to say this is without exception – is to iron out the bumps, and It’s always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection

Until I’m over the hill and over the hump; I’m gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.