As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

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

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

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

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

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.

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'