There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.