There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

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.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

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

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