For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.