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.

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

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

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

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.

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