The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you.