At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.

C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.