Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer

We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth