It can get a bit boring working on accents.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!