As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.