The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

My default-setting Italian recipes that I always fall back on are the ones that we had as kids, like spaghetti vongole, which is tomato and clams with spaghetti.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.