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

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

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

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

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