An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.