Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.