I remember spending time in Stratford growing up with all…

I think 'The Musketeers' is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it's 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'.…

— Tom Burke

Doing a TV show where it's a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the…

— Tom Burke

My dad was part of that generation with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, of working-class actors breaking through. They'd never had an actor in…

— Tom Burke

Philip of Spain is a ruler who has forgotten that a ruler is there to serve the people.

— Tom Burke

Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic…

— Tom Burke

There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies.

— Tom Burke

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.

— Tom Burke

I got a pommel in my eye. A pommel is the end of a sword - not the sharp end, the other end. It…

— Tom Burke

I was diagnosed dyslexic, but I should point out I don't think it majorly impacted on me. I don't feel that I overcame great…

— Tom Burke

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in…

— Tom Burke

The only thing that I can say with any degree of commitment is a reason to he happy is... moderate weather. But then even…

— Tom Burke

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

— Tom Burke

What I've gathered from people who are big fans of the 'Musketeers', they adore the books to the degree where an awful lot of…

— Tom Burke

I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at…

— Tom Burke

I felt quite confident - when you come out of drama school you feel like you're on top of everything. I always tell people…

— Tom Burke