I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.