65 Quotes by Christopher Eccleston

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years.

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 don’t see a lot of films. I’m quite choosy, but there’s certain films that stick out.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor’s dream!

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!

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn’t for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

I wasn’t always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Rather than disliking theatre, I’ve expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Television, although It’s in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don’t have voices.