At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-)

Intimacy with God is what determines our exploits

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.

The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.

Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.