There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Every circumstance is a channel of miracles.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

...living the gospel of Jesus Christ is the price of-and the only way to-peace.

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.