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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.