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

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

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

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.

KYLE: ... no way in h*ll he’s getting away with short changing you.”KERRYANNE: But like you said, I don’t need it so why?KYLE: Because it’s rightfully yours sweetheart.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

I think if there's anything that can help fat kids get out of the house and anybody to move, it's a positive thing.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.