Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen. But in theatre I can be better tomorrow night, I can be better the night after that and I can be better in a week. The journey you go through as an actor is incredible.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.