You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.