Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Always care about value—not about price.

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.

If you don't have the physical conditioning necessary to get your self out of trouble, the skills in this book won't do you much good.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.