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

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

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.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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