I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

Things come suitable to the time.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.