My Parents Were Incredibly Inclusive.

Quiet People, People Who Arent Given To Emotional Outbursts, People Who Are Economic With Words - Theyre Also Fun To Play, But You Find Yourself Needing A Laser Precision In Those Roles. Otherwise You Just Sort Of Stand Around, Looking Slightly Brain-dead. You Worry About Being Uninteresting.

A Cricket Ball Broke My Nose When I Was A Kid So I Couldn't Breath Through It. Before I Had It Operated On I Used To Stand On Stage With My Mouth Slightly Open.

I Always Resented Tom [hardy] For Turning Up On Band Of Brothers And Getting The Girl — In Fact, The Only Girl In A Cast Of Hundreds Of Smelly Men! I, On The Other Hand, Spent Eight Months With My Face Squashed Up Against Someone Else’s Backside In One Sodden Trench After Another. And It Looks As If Tom Might Have Got The Girl Again [in Colditz], Damn His Eyes.

For Me The Rehearsal Period Is The Part I Most Enjoy. It's The Creating Of The Story.

You Know, This Idea Of Going Around The World Imposing Democracy By Growing A Middle-class, A Trading Merchant Class That Is Independent Of Your Faith, Is A Good Notion, But We're All Partially Different - It's No Good Imposing Systems On People That It Doesn't Suit.