When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

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

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

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

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?