Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

If you want to reach the summit, you gotta take the hard path

Nobody sees me like you do, and without you, I’ll be invisible. I exist because you see me.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

Oh! How should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the Gospel? Can the world die for you?

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.