I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.