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

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.

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.

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

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

I choose to be authentic in everything I do

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.