The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.