England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'