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.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

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

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.

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.