“For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very...” — James Norton Quote

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

With migration to Mars becoming a not so distant reality one can only hope that there will be more rainbows on Mars and not magma marking territories.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

Sometimes I wake at 2 A.M. worrying that my great-granddaughter will have to march through her distant, broiling future gathering all the plastic I ever disposed of.

The Queen is distant towards strangers. But with friends and family she can be very funny.