You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

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.

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

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 see clearly in sacred moment of light.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.