Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.