I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.