I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.