I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.
Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.
When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.
There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.
Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.