To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

I'd love to do more independent films.

There is no other possible way to a meaningful life other than going through your positive purpose on earth.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.