I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

Empowerment is the most effective and sustainable way to improve the lives of others.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic the spices are so sensuous.

Keep all your passions in your life.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.