I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.