I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theatre is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.