When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

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.

Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the government

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.