Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.