If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

We are capitalism made flesh.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen it will grow when you try to give it away.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one.

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

I do not believe that Donald Trump is a member of the Alt- right.

I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.