To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.