To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Read two old books for every new one.

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!