Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.