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.

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

There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

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.

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

One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.