I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

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.

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I'm relaxed naked as long as there is no one else there. I speed up past mirrors.