I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.