As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

If you see a bully, stand up to him.

If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.