A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.