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

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

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

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

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.