If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.