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

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

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

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

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.