With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.