you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.
I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who heshe knows won't.