 It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. |
| I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. |
| I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country. |
| Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can. |
| The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are. |
| Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. |
| I had bags of energy as a kid. |
| My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking! |
| Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. |
| I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. |
| Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. |
| Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. |
| I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors. |
| I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. |
| I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid. |
| I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously. |
| I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream! |
