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

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

I'd like to direct more operas.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

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

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