When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

We have to start listening to nature now.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.