It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.

We are all fit for better things than we ever do

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.