When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.