It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Tendulkar must have known from his heart

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.