I hardly even leave my own house.

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 not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.

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.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.