I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem.

The triumph of an uncluttered mind.

Dream it. Dare it. Do it.

A child needs your love most when he deserves it least

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.