At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I’ll never know if it was figuratively or literally when he said I drove him crazy.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Whenever Im having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

Chemistry is all about getting lucky.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.