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.

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

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.

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

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?