I'm woefully one-track-minded.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.