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?

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

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 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.

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.

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