I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.