On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.