I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.