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.

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

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.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

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

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.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?