You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.