Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.