I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.