I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

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.

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.

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