It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.