I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.