I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me.

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

~You only live twice - Once in your life and once in your dreams~~ The World is Not Enough for Tomorrow Never Dies ~

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

you choose darknessyou choose light, but you will know if you chose right.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

All human history moves towards one great goal

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.