The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.