The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.