When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I threatened to kung fu you. Oh my God.

I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused... I have longed for Egypt and have been given a wilderness.

Never make a person feel, that he/she is very (extra) special.. Cause, then that person starts feeling that 'You' are not worth him/her.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

The great silent majority.

I've got the best job in the world, and i meet some of the most amazing human beings on the planet. I'm one lucky guy.