Samuel West

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.