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.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

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

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.

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

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.

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.