Quotes from Tom Bateman

If you're playing someone who's not like you at all, it's good to find music that is their rhythm and their energy.

With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.

I've been brought up to be polite and I'm not very confrontational, but even I have walked away from situations and thought, 'If only I'd said or done that.' Well Mr Hyde says and does that.

I don't think people care what I had for breakfast.

I try to be warm to everyone I meet.

There's a funny line between feeling objectified and feeling supported and it's a very odd one.

I sweat on stage a lot.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

I can cross the line when I'm making fun of people.

I don't miss working on camera as much as theatre. But I do love film and television because it's so immediate; you walk on to a set and the tables are dusty, and everything's as it should be.

All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

Nothing really teaches you for the film world.

Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't realise I was borrowing it throughout the auditions - but Heath Ledger's Joker was an influence.

I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.

The book says, 'Vanity Fair - a story without a hero.' Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she is flawed. Becky is a subject of her own time.

I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.

There isn't an actor alive who hasn't been turned down, and I promise you I have taken a hell of a lot of rejection. That said, I do count my blessings every day.

India is just amazing.

My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.

Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.

Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that's nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.