If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

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

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

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.'

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.