I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.