A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.