Lines are very difficult to learn.

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.