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?

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

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.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

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'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.