When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

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

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.