It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

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

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

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.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

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.

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.'