A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

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.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.

I have a hard time watching myself.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Hobbies are for wimps who don’t have the guts to follow their passion.