I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.