You Know, This Idea Of Going Around

It Was Pretty Daunting. Normally, I Never Go To A Gym, But Before We Started Shooting, I Thought I'd Better. I Reckoned I Was In Really Good Shape, And Then I Looked Around And I Was Half The Size Of Everyone Else. A Lot Of These American Actors Have This - In My View - Misplaced View That They Have To Look Like Action Man. The Trouble Is, They All Run The Risk Of Being Interchangeable.

You Never Know When You're Taking A Job, Ever... But You Try To Take Good Scripts. That's All You Can Do As An Actor - Take The Best Thing Available. Even Then, It's Not [really] In Your Control. Certainly Not In Film And Tv, Because There Are So Many Other Elements. You Just Have To Take Control Of Your Own Performance.

It's An Unfair Comparison Because When Things Are Developed In The Uk, They're Developed At Script Stage Only.

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.

I've Done Classical Theaters. I Played Hamlet Myself And Romeo.