But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.