I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

Success is not about your techniques, it’s not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it’s about your mindset and your actions.

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.