They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

Tequila is my salmon.

Great is the love of God.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Obedience to Truth is obedience to Love.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.