Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Every director is completely different.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

Hate when hate acquaints the burns, Love when love heals it!

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with a car. Throw you off a bridge so high, Hope you break your neck and die.

Anybody can leap off a building.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.