We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.