The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

In Ruin City, in the rain, the sound of melancholy is a buzzing maelstrom of quiet desperation. The shatter has been so great, there is no sound left to despair.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

Lothaire:Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.

The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.