The audience's expectations are ever-present.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success.