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

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

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

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

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

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.