If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

When I am weak then am I strong.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

What man is, only history tells.

I don't think of myself as a writer.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

I believe passionately in the power of people.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.