I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.

It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets to decide how they feel, and what to take away by themselves, and that's what you hope for. That people will take away different things and have different experiences from the work we do as actors. So I don't like to prescribe how to feel about the work I do.