I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

What is success? Freedom from lies. Living your truth.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Swords can’t solve every problem.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

I love Australian people.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

I think it's the people that you work with who change you the most.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

A less-than dream job can help you find your dreams.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.