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

I'd like to direct more operas.

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.

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.

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

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.