Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

I was coming together...limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

People expect more and more every time.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.