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.

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

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

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.

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

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