I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.