There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.