There is a lot of years in my 20s that acting was really on the back burner not even saying I was traveling and writing, taking pictures and just kind of living and figuring out what I wanted to do.

There's not too many shows with, you know, mid 20s male lead on it. And I thought that would be obviously something to go for The Listener.

Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.

The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.