My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.