"I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward."

"Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it."

"I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are."

"I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive."

"Wisdom principle 96 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"It is a essential truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions."