Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit, ” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.