I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.