I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve. . . If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.
You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling. . . to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.
There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.