I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.
I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.
I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.
On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
