Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
I'm cheaper than Anthony Hopkins.
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot. ' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.
It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason. . . . When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.
Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.
People like to run their mouths.