I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

There are not more than five primary colors  (blue, yellow,   red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.