If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.