You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

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

Liverpool will always be my home.

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.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

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've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.