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

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

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.

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

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

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

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.