Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

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.

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.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

Better be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?