I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

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

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.