The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

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.

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.

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.

Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything

I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.

Apathy is not compatible with love

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.