I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded: 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

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

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

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.

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.