Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

It must be hard interviewing actors.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.