I like to learn about things.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.

Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed.

It's a hard world for little things.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

Thank you Rob for the honor you have brought to our city with this oustanding composition.