"I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater."

"I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe."

"Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really."

"I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist."

"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."

"Wisdom principle 54 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 26."

"To know nothing is the happiest life."

"In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed."