Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

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

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

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