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

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

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

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.

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

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.