I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

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

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

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.