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.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

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.

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

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.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.