Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

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

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

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.