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

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

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.

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

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

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?