I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.