I want to come across as a positive person.

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.

You can not be fearless without first admitting you have been afraid.

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.

You don't have to be anybody... because I would know, being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.