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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.