The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I love the theatre and theatre people.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I was rather a fat little boy.

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.

There is always a zone where somebody is nobody

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .