Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story, a book or a piece of literature can rise to dominate and make entire nations go to war with each other. I think that's endlessly fascinating, and it's a human construct. It's something that's constructed to occupy the mind and occupy society, and some people would say to control society.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.