We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns – it’s the guy with brains.
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
Animations are really powerful – it’s not just entertainment, it’s a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
Look at you lot, you’re all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
Lines are very difficult to learn.
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
I have actual acting scars.