I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

To respect my nature is to know my nature.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.