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 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.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

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

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

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

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