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.

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.

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.

Every night the dream that enamors me is the one about you and me.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

When we judge others we contribute to violence.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.