Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

Don’t ever touch her again, ” Hayden growled.Kurt looked up, eyes wide. “Are you threatening me— over her? I’m like your brother, Hayden!” “Not anymore.

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?