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 would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.