My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.

There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.

Life gives you what you are deeply longing for.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.