I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

People always think something's all true.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

A poem is a small machine made out of words.