Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

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.

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.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.