I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

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.

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

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

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

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.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.