I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions.