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.

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.

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.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

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

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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