Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."