Orla Brady

I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.