I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

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

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.