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.

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

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

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

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

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

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.