My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my m...
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebelli...
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also disco...
There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazin...
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills,...
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was de...
Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to th...
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.