I'm the only honest person in Washington.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

I don't believe in your version of love, I have my own

It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.