People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

He can surround a sword with flames." Freya sounded proud of him. That irritated Ena. He was her prisoner and only she had the right to feel proud of him as far as she was concerned.

They'll die in overtime

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'