Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.