“My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I…” — Harry Hadden-Paton

Thankfully, Claire Foy is a very easy person to get along with. She's lovely.

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'

What's great about the play 'Pygmalion' is that it's sort of two plays. It's the one simple trajectory of girl bettering herself. It's a bet; it's a dare. Will they get away with it? Basic seed: boom. And then it goes into a different direction.

I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.