I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.
A star is different, and an actor is different. But there is an actor in every star, and they, too, look for challenging roles to satisfy the actor in them.
There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.
I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor.
Peter Pan has been one of my dream roles since I was a child.
I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
I just wasn't meant to do Shakespeare. I'm not vocally equipped; I've got this flat, nasal, East Anglian voice. I got to understand the fantastic words Shakespeare wrote but never got to fly with them.
As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
I promised my mum that if something did happen to her, although I never thought anything would, I told her that I wouldn't give up on acting until I got my Oscar. This was her dream for me.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me.
