Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.