Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.