Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be.

Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

You can't celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.