A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.
Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
