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

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.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

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.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

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