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.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I had bags of energy as a kid.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

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.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

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