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.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

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

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

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.

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

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