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

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

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

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

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

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