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

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

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

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

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

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.