I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Lying is never the best option, but in some situations it is necessary.

Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.

Gender is but a doorway to a vast inner universe of ultimate relationships between oneness and duality, manifest and divine, being and nonbeing, temporal and eternal.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

I can choose to be unstable.

You have to have the common sense.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.