When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.