Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

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.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

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

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.