I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

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.

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

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.

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

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.