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

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

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

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

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

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.