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I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

There's such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can't learn in L.A.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.