Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.

The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the ‘rank’ is not absolute. 'True respect’ is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'