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.

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

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

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.

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

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

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?