At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

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.'

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.