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

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.

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.

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

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

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

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.