Douglas Hodge

“The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.”

“When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'”

“To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.”

“Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.”

“I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.”

“It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'”

“It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.”