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

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 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.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I'm not such a public person.

Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.