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.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

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'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.