I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast, but I just couldn't find my way into the heart of the character. I found myself straining a lot. When it started. I felt lost. That was the Eugène Ionesco play Rhinoceros. I don't think I was prepared for that. I don't think I had the full tool kit to do it justice. It's a very difficult play, it's an extraordinarily difficult part, and I never felt I really got it right. Far from it. To a degree, Hamlet was the same.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

I don't want to miss things.

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.