Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....

Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

It's all about love and how we are all connected.

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.