I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

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

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.