It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

The key word in profiteering is profit.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.