Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.