“You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.”

“As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.”

“I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, ...”

“Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.”

“When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!”

“It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.”

“I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.”

“Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.”