It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.