But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

But a smooth and steadfast mind,   Gentle thoughts and calm desires,   Hearts with equal love combined,   Kindle never-dying fires:—  Where these are not, I despise  Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.