Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.

What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

I have got a reputation to protect.