Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

I'm as clean as a whistle.