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

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

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

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

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 greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

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.