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

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.

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.

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

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

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.