Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

I don't hold grudges.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.