It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?