I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

Aaron got him when it mattered the most.

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.