An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.