There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
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.
„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.
It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.