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

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.