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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

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When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: July 19th, 1976

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