People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.