Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

People say to me that I cant be nervous because Ive had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.