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.

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.

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

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.

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’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

Remember that when you love yourself, you are a greater gift to someone else.

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.