It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Learning is one letter short of maturity.

If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

You either WIN or you LEARN. Either way, you WIN!

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.