Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them."

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

I was playing a role and acting. But it was different than Spike Lee's movie. Spike can say 'cut' and move to the next scene. But I was pretending to be a white supremacist, one of them. I had to act like them to make the ruse a success.

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