I Even Feel Grateful For The Failures.

I Suppose My Understanding Of Villains Is That They're Just People Who Are Infected By All Of The Darker Instincts - That They Haven't Got The Discipline To Make The Right Choices.

When You're Starting Out As An Actor People Are Very Interested In Who You Are Because They Want To Know Where They Can Put You. And Quite Often, And We're All Guilty Of This Is Our Lives, We Judge Very Quickly And We Pigeon-hole People Very Quickly Based On How They Look And How They Talk And How They Dress And We Think: "oh Yeah, We Know Who You Are."

I Thought Theater People Wouldn't See Me If I Hadn't Trained. I Didn't Want To Just Be The Brideshead Guy, To Spend The Rest Of My Life Wearing Waistcoats. I Got The Chance To Try Everything. Not Just Romeos, But Pimps And Grandfathers And Even One Role As A Woman In A Naomi Wallace Play Called Slaughter City.

I've Done My Share Of Period Stuff. I'm Not Sure Why, But People Say I Have A Period Face. The Bread And Butter Of British Tv Is Jane Austen Adaptations And Bridges And Bonnets And Boats And Horses.

I Have Been Allowed To Inhabit Different Shades Of Human Nature And Different Colours Of Truth Indifferent Circumstances.