I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

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

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 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.

We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it, ” she snaps. “That was our mistake.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Accept The Movement, Everything Is Ok.