I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.

She's an array of undiscovered words, of feeling beyond my threshold. I'm just a man, trying to hold himself together in her wake.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

What I do in my own time, is my business.