Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.