Occupation: Actor Birth: July 26, 1959
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman..
The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like eve….
I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different..
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is on….
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances..
Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing..
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?.
I find drinking really helps..
Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait..
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people w….
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be..
I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a….
Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie..
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believ….
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month per….
There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten….
The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one..
I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn,….
I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling l….
Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone..