It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

A poem is a frozen momentmelted by each reader for themselvesto flow into the here and now.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.