If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.(Professor Alistair Dawkins)

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

What I know and I have learn is my books I can't tell you, but search out there and you will find. As a second think as you was here, you will be here and you are going to be here!

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?