I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

Please stop. If you keep chipping off little pieces of my heart, soon there will be no heart left with which to love you.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

Mo' money, mo' problems.