The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.