I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

People fear they won’t get what they want.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.