I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

I have been at war with parts of myself for so long

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.