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

I like finding things out beforehand, because I'm nervous in disposition, and I worry that if I don't do anything, then I'll turn up and I still won't really have a sense of it, and it might be too late. So I like to get things as organized as I possibly can in my own head, to apply myself to the work before arriving to a late-in-the-day rehearsal, or in extreme cases, the first day on set.

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

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

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

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.