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.

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.

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.

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.

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