Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.