Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

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 don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

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.