Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

One must dare to be happy.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.