So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

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

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

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

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.