Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down..

For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of s….

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure..

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea..

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more..

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team..

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very app….

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty..

If it's good art, it's good..

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great pr….

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports..

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense..

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit..

Adults are just children who earn money..

With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit g….

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like d….

Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's ….

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for ….