You get ideas from other people all the time.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

Rule #1: Life is supposed to be fun!

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.