If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

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

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.