I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

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.

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.

Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.