The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

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.

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.

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

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

Only few moments of love has greater value than entire life

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.