Christopher Eccleston Quotes

I know exactly where I’ve come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you’ve been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

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.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I’ve taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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!

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

I want to direct but I think I’d be bloody awful and I don’t want to produce but I think I’d be a very good producer because if I believed in something I’d be able to protect it.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

We all need a firm sense of identity.