To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, …

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my name was in lights for the very first tim…

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a …

Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. And then you shot across the sky, like a meteor. Su…

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.