I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

To make a long story short . . . there's nothing like having the boss walk in.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

Every single thing I go through, I remember I was homeless, and I draw from it!

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.