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.'

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

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