It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.
For my money, all theatre should be free.
I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.
Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.
I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.
I think it's harder to write about joy than pain, isn't it?
It's all you want as an actor: to have a story people want to be told.
New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates - if they decide that's what they want to do.
I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'
You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.
Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.
J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.
I like Monoloco in Petersfield, Hampshire, and Little Dorrit in London's Borough Market. Everything's delicious, healthy, and inexpensive.
I'm making it up as I go along, like everyone else. There probably are some actors who are quite methodical or at least take their time about what particular footholds to find on the rocks next. There are always choices, even when you're not getting seen, for how to spend your time. It's only after 10 years that I got any kind of traction at all.
If you are not getting people who have never been to the theatre before to come, then you are not doing your job.
Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.
Spoilers are inevitable.
