I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

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.

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Love yourself as you are. Love and approve of yourself.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .