You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

God is great. God is glorious.

I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.