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.

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

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.

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

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.

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.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.