"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"