I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.