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

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 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.'

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

It hurts because it mattered.

I've got the utmost respect for Wayne.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.