I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.