All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.
Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.