When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

More isnt always better, Linus. Sometimes its just more.

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Forever turned out to be too long.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy... Chiron's collection!

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.