Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later.

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I don't think I've got enough energy to be competitive! Most of my energy is just devoted to me being nervous and trying to deal with the situation.

The only person I can amaze is me.

A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Delight in the Lord, He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

My brain said no. But my heart!

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.