If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.

I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

He fawns over ye like flies to a dung pile.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.