I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.