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The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'
We'll be back. I promise you that.
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he ... introduces confusion and disorder into society ... [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
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.
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.
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.
I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.
Most actors are socialists, aren't they?