"But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds."

“No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.”

“The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.”

“As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.”

“My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.”

“I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2009.

“The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms every time I’m on stage. These days I get the urge to make the audience go crazy.”

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

“The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.”

Source : "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.