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.

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

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.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

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.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

I'd like to direct more operas.