I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation..

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma..

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's….

You can never love me..

Your head is full of kelp..

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down.

All great acheivements require time..

Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it..

Always destroy what is in you..

After love, no one is what they were before..

I'm not exactly repulsive..

Don't take it so seriously..

Become more than what you were..

We're endangered by our own success..

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable..

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was..

ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them..

I will always have a stutter..

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed..

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you..

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me..