There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

How this life speeds right by, the odometer forgetting how fast it sped. Grinding the foot and pressing the metal, not counting road side markers ahead

You have the right to follow your heart. Do what feels right, for you.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.