The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

I never quite toed the line.

I'm shocked at being recognized.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

Bravery hides in amazing places.

Only God and His angels can hear our hearts duet.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.

I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.