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

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?