My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground.

Design really can be anything.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.