We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
I like to act because I can forget about everything else.
All actors think every job will be their last.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
Liverpool will always be my home.
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.
I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.
I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.
