When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.