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.

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 just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

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.