I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

God only commits when you do.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

I am proud to be an actor.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.