“There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academ...” — David Warner Quote

“There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.”

“I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.”

“Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.”

“I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.”

“I feel very, very upset that, when it came time for me to get an Academy Award, that I didn't especially thank Clint Eastwood.”

“We have seen a lot more black and minority ethnic coaches at grass-roots level, academy level, development level, but of course at senior level there is a massive void. That is something that has to be addressed and there has to be a pathway for them.”