In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.