It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, ' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.