You only have to look at Manchester's Royal Exchange or Home to understand the huge energy outside London - there's enough talent around the country to have a Donmar and National in every city. It just comes down to money. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philip of Spain is a ruler who has forgotten that a ruler is there to serve the people. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
I remember spending time in Stratford growing up with all that company running round and putting on silly hats and just having fun all… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
