The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.