43 Quotes by Samuel West

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.