The (conservatives) are seeking a more binding type of communion, one that is more doctrinal,

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

Israel worshipped a God who could grow angry, who changed his mind, a God involved in history, who cared so much about one group of people that their apostasies drove him to fits of impatience. The greatest philosophers of Greece spoke of an unchanging divine principle, far removed from our world, without emotion, unaffected by anything beyond itself. Improbably enough, Christian theology came to identify these two as the same God; this may be the single most remarkable thing to have happened in Western intellectual history.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

If the Kaiser Chiefs win then I could well be the one seeking employment, they have been consistently backed and we have a very lopsided book,

It's one thing if [the Conservatives] had four or five years to deal with it. It's another thing if you're a minority government -- a slim minority. Forget about bank executives -- I don't think you'll find a single analyst who'd be surprised.