The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!

Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die.

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

Never give up the ganja.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.