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I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!