It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.