I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.