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.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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

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

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 was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.