All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

Fear is intense self-awareness.

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

When someone else doesn’t believein you or your dreams, rememberit’s about them, not you.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.

She was scared. Scared of dying.