I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.