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I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.