Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

We pay far too much attention to externals.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.