Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his mobile telling him his friend Arthur Mill…

- Jamie Sives

I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.

- Jamie Sives

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

- Jamie Sives

The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amo…

- Jamie Sives

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

- Jamie Sives

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bo…

- Jamie Sives

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my …

- Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

- Jamie Sives

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicia…

- Jamie Sives