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

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

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.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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.

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

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.