What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

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.

What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?

Was there a drain?''No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

I hate children! I hate them all!

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.