Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

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.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.

I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.