My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.