“I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always stru...” — Samuel Barnett Quote

“I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.”

“Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.”

“Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.”

“Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of the Morning Star' - the greatest book about the American West. I also admire Joan Didion, although I don't write like her in any way, shape, or form or cover the same subject material.”

“Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth.”