Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.