I'd like to direct more operas.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

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

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

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.

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