I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.
I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.
It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?
I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.