I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.