If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.