I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.