Top 37 Quotes by Christopher Eccleston

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

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!

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.