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

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

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.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

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

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