Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.

Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.