In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that's what it's about. It's about facing life together.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.