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.

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

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

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

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

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

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.