You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.