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

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

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.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.