Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other People's Minutes.-RVM

A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.