Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.