A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.
I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.
It was like, `Do you want a job?’ It didn’t matter what the pitch was. I had to get something because I was doing nothing. It sounded all right to me. I initially read for the role that Colin (Hanks) got. Then they called me back for the role that I ended up getting. … I know it sounds kind of funny. OK, they’re aliens and they’re walking among us and they’re in high school. My good friends are always picking on me about it.
Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.