The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

Excellent warriors are not violent.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.