The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!