I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.

And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.

If they laugh at you for being true to yourself, laugh back at them for not knowing how great it feels to be in love with one's positive self.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.