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

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.'

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

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

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'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.