I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.