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

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

A pub can be a magical place.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

Every species has its pub.

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.