I think a series risks straying into self-parody if you get into a fourth series... sometimes even if you get into a third, because the audience knows how it's going to go.

I felt quite confident - when you come out of drama school you feel like you're on top of everything. I always tell people to go to drama school even if they've already done movies or whatever because the way you encounter content is so different.

I remember when I had to copy writing off the board at school it just looked to me like a magic eye picture, I could just see so many shapes.

I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there.

I think 'The Musketeers' is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it's 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'. I've always been a big fan of Dumas because, on the one hand, he writes a lot about revenge, but he also writes about the cost of it to the revenger - I'd always had an interest in that.

I think, unlike other superheroes, what one gleans about the Musketeers, certainly from the source material, is that the good that they do happens in quite a spasmodic manner, in short bursts.

Regional theatres don't patronise their audiences, and they're not afraid to do big, bold things.

There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies.

I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.

When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.