When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

With Great power comes great need to take a nap

The darkness is my birthright.

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already.

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!

I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.

Sermons seldom convert sinners they sometimes goad them into more sin.

Your life content reduces with employment

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.