The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.