It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.