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 don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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

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

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.