To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

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

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

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?

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

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.