You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.