With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

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

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.