You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.