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

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.

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

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

Mais, dans la mort d’un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.

There is no known cure for severe affection for one's cat. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to go ahead and launch a kiss attack.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

He is an interesting player - short back legs.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.