What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?

I think that bold leadership sells.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.