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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

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.

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.