As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!