That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.