I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire. Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

I think I've got a funny face.

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning