I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

I Think and think... And more thoughts line up to get processed.

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.