I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

Don't worry about getting it right. Just get it started.