I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.

The den of the Devil is no place for the innocent.

She cares about fall’s magnificence in the rainThe dipping raindrops' dance assigning thence Indicated rhyme that eases her refrainBefore they met - her paces commence.

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.