I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

I knew it!"Cards fly everywhere, as if he had them hidden in his gym shorts.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I follow the rules until I go against them all.

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

All natural processes are long processes and they last.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.