My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

I'm a child of the Sixties.