I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.
When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.
Sometimes I just want to laugh.
I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.
People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'
It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.
One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.
I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.
What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.
It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.
I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.
