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.

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.

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

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

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

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

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