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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.