It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.

I fought the mighty urge to watch her put it on. My libido had just burst out of the closet and was tripping over furniture yelling, "Who? What? Where?" (Please excuse him. He doesn't get out much)

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death