Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.
I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go back to and can watch anytime it's on TV and I'll watch to the end, is Fargo. I think it's, like, a perfect film, it's genius.
L. A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.
It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play. '
It can get a bit boring working on accents.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.