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.

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.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

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

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.