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.

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.

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

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

I don't like wearing suits all the time. I don't like looking like the clean-cut kind of dude. I think the coolest guys are the ones who dress how they want to dress.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.