Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.