Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

The Earth orbits round tables.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

I can kind of go into the wild places and immediately feel rested and rejuvenated.

There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.