I hate the domestic life.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.