Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.