As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.