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

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.'

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.

To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.