I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.