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?

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

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

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.

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.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.