I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.