After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley..

London is a very energising place to be..

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something..

I have long been a supporter of The Princes Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch Amex Be Inspired and help young people build their….

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes..

In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have….

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller..

I am not an image. I am a human being..

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman..

I love producing, I love bringing things together..

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get..

No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part..

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift..

I have never played a game in my life..

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative peo….

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think th….

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself..

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, a….

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable..

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the n….