Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

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.

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

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

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.

When is now.

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.