I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I don't know' is often really 'I don't want to say.

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

A good woman is a pleasured treasure.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

You might be a redneck if you move your refrigerator and the grass underneath it has turned yellow.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.