Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Dare to courageous in life.You have nothing to lose.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

When you work hard and you treat people great, regardless of what it is that you're doing, naturally people want to help and do things.