I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.