I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there?

I went on an audition. I walked in the room, and it was Leslie Mann with Judd Apatow. It was intimidating.

In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.