I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

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

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.