'I think love is seeing the potential in people... I think it's wrong to demonise people, to make them into fixed things, which is what tribalism does. It always creates another, you define yourself by what you are not, and I don't believe that.' Eddie Marsan in #WhatIBelieve

'I think love is seeing the potential in people... I think it's wrong to demonise people, to make them into fixed things, which is what tribalism does. It always creates another, you define yourself by what you are not, and I don't believe that.' Eddie Marsan in #WhatIBelieve

If you don’t believe in gay marriage because of your religious beliefs, then don’t marry someone from the same sex, if you don’t believe in assisted dying to relieve end of life suffering, then don’t have it. People don’t have to suffer unnecessarily because of your beliefs

'These aren’t anecdotes – they are the real, lived experiences of people living in the UK. More than one person a week is forced to end their life abroad, but that is only available to people with the funds and the physical ability to do so, making the current system discriminatory.'

Brilliant

Wonderful interview in the Times, with my dear friend Danny Mays. From EastEnders to Star Wars, Vera Drake and Guys & Dolls. What a career, what a talent! You showed ‘em mate. So proud of you ❤️👋👋👋

Populism

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@realeddiemarsan.bsky.social could we get you to reskeet this to keep raising awareness. youtu.be/jdn4p8hpjTY?...

I’m so honoured to have contributed to ‘What I Believe,’ Humanist Ideas and Philosophies To Live By, edited by Andrew Copson. I’m in great company,with fascinating chapters by Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin, Joan Bakewell, A.C.Grayling, Sandi Toksvig, Alf Dubs and many others.

Best advice I ever received on being a working class actor, came from the great Wendell Pierce. ‘Don’t seek to not be defined as a working class actor, rather, change their definition of what it means to be a working class actor. Brilliant and inspiring

My favourite poem, Eternity by William Blake He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Danish physicist Niels Bohr said ‘for every great truth, the opposite is also true and for every simple truth, the opposite is always false. The problem with social media, is people demand that you adhere to their simple truth and ignore the paradox that lies within the heart of the greater truth.

Best advice I ever received as an actor… strive to have an ordinary life and an extraordinary career.