The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof. . . We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.
I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. . . "strongest wind cannot be seen. "
I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.