It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

I am nothing; nothing is everything