The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

He doesn’t look like the kind of person that could kill anyone? She thought. - Immortal Door

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.