I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.