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If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.

To be a theater actor, I think you have to do plays all the time.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.