Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

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

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

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

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?