We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.