I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Faith, Princess, " the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments…And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving.

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.