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.'

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.

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 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.

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

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.