Zitat des Tages von Samuel West:
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
We'll be back. I promise you that.
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Most actors are socialists, aren't they?
I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
