As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money….

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films ….

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but….

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it….

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do..

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The h….

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion accordi….

If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything..