People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.