I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

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

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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

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 love working in New York theater.