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

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

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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.

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

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?

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.