All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

I like it when stories are left open.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.