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

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

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

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

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.