Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

I've been on shows that go for shock value

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake.