In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

I regret all the prayers that do not shed tears.

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

The child is the father of man.