When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

My body of work means nothing to me

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.