The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Creation cost Him nothing; salvation cost Him everything.