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.

Everything contains its antithesis.

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 sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

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.