A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.