You just have to take control of your own performance.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

To experience what isn't, love what is.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

I can live without you. I just don’t wish to.” ~ Joe

My dog hasn't said a word all day, he must have a lot on his mind

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

Scandal is only human.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.