I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

If your food is poison you will understand it.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.