Zitat des Tages von Stephen Mangan:
I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.
My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.
When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.