I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

God’s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Hitler was the first superstar.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Happy is that family where both the husband and wife are mutual members of Christ's body

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.