As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.