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Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.

Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.