- The key to acting is just don't fuck it up. People want to believe in you unless they're arseholes. There are some people who come in primed with schadenfreude and just want you to fail. But most audiences are there to engage in an act of imagination.
- Maybe Coalition (2015) is as close to being a political journalist as I could get. I've got journalism in the blood.
- [For Coalition (2015)] I spent the month as a smoker, although I am not, because Clegg is and you can hear it in his voice. It's... sexy!
- In all these parts, I get to reach quite far from my central self. They're all in corners of my unconscious, my subconscious, the envelope of my experiences and my sense of self. I get to explore what the world feels like in all these different ways because, in all of these characters, there's some part of me in there.
- [in response to a question about the leg room at the Old Vic, posting a selfie of his legs] This is a typical seat in the stalls. I have fairly long legs.
- [2007] I've often thought about directing some day, but I'm not sure I'd be terribly good at it!
- I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.
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