Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that w….

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor..

It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air.

Here's my take on Instagram: It's so ridiculous that people can go on and play characters, and none of it [should be] taken too seriously..

In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted int….

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. Tha….

God has created the world in play, as it were..

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to ….

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play..

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff..

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is b….

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play..

I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican..

Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play..

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee com….

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I r….

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy..

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, beca….

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty rol….

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait….