I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

I'm old enough to remember the days when you spoke to one person from one outlet and that was the conversation. But now what happens is you speak to people and what you say gets translated into Portuguese, then into Mandarin, through a German prism and then back into English and bears little to no resemblance between - to the exchange or - that you had initially with the journalist or to what you originally said.