Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

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