I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

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 do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.