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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

I’m constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.

Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.