That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

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.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

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.

I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.