You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty