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

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

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.

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

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

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

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