I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.

Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.