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

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.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.