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

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

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.

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

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

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