Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

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

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.

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.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering

The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. Its a status that does exist.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.