It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

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

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.