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I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.

I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.