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

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.