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.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.