To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

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.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Dreams are sent by God.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

All beings are flowers blossoming In a blossoming universe.