"For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll ..." — Dominic Cooper

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.