Parts win prizes, not actors.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.