I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.

The most important thing is to keep trying...

I have a suicide impulse.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.