One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.

I don’t see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where’s the challenge there?

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But ’cause I left school at 15, I didn’t know what a noun was, still don’t.

The fight scenes in ‘The World’s End’ have a certain balletic quality to them.

I’d like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.

Smiley was the guy who made me realise that it was all right to succeed. No one had ever told me that. It was something I’d never considered before. That’s stayed with me ever since. It’s okay to succeed. I knew what it felt like to hurt and fail, those things were familiar to me. But the thought that I was allowed to succeed was something new and scary and something I needed to hear.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I’ve always been fairly funny.

And remember, the people that you’ve seen here tonight are professionals, so please don’t try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster.

I don’t regret anything that I’ve turned down, and I don’t regret anything that I’ve done, really.

I’m so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I’m such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream ‘No spoilers!’ Every day on set I’ve had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!