Christopher Eccleston Quotes

What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.

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've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

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

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

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.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

I had bags of energy as a kid.

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

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

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

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

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

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.