I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.