I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.