It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

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.

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!