I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories.

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.