I Don't Want To Associate Myself With

When You Are In Something That You're Proud Of And It's Funny And It's A Good Night Out And All Of Those Things, There's Nothing Quite Like It. The Rewards Are Proportionate To The Amount Of Alarm And Distress It Causes You.

I Admire David Hare As Much As I Admire Certainly Any Writer Ever. What I Like About His Writing Is It Is Very Conscientiously, In One Way, An Attempt To Reproduce The Way People Actually Speak, But It's Not Just An Attempt At Naturalism. It's Stylised And It's Heightened, To Great Effect. It's Elegant And It's Funny And That's The Way To My Heart, Frankly.

From My Point Of View, It's Very Refreshing To Play A Regular Human Being And Not Someone From Another Dimension. When I Say "not Act," What I Mean Is Just To Be As Natural And As Normal As Possible.

One Of The Great Regrets Of My Life Is That I Smoked. If I Could Say Anything To Anybody Starting Out In Life It Would Be, 'whatever You Do, Don't Smoke'. I Have Had To Recover From That And Been Lucky That I Have Been Able To Stop.

You Tell Yourself That You're Not Auditioning But Of Course You Work Like Crazy, And You Prepare Like Mad. And You Think, "well, I Won't Get That Job. But Maybe They'll Have Another Job Sometime, And They'll Remember That I Was Good."