Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.