I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Dustin Hoffman takes such pleasure in what he does and there's nothing tense about him. He exudes joy and passion for what he's doing and that infects everyone. It certainly put me at ease coming to work with him every day. I felt his confidence and freedom rubbed off. He doesn't censor himself or stop an idea because he thinks it might be wrong.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.