I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.