As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

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.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

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

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

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

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.