Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.