He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.
The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.
When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.